Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #51 Posted March 5, 2014 Cuba Gooding, Jr. also played Petty Officer Doris Miller in Pearl Harbor 908372.jpg Doris_Miller.jpg Remember the old Johnny Cash song, "A boy named Sue"? I think P/O Miller's parents might have been motivated by the same principle. Looks like it worked!
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #52 Posted March 5, 2014 BTW world war 1 nerd , I compliment you on your presentation of the images. How did equalize their sizing and "frame" them like that? Very slick!
world war I nerd Posted March 5, 2014 #53 Posted March 5, 2014 I use Microsoft Publisher which is part of the Microsoft Office package. I barely know how to us it, but I managed to figure out how to copy and paste photos onto the page. Once you figure it out you can crop and size two photos in a minute or two. James Mason as Irwin Rommel in "The Desert Fox"
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #54 Posted March 5, 2014 Paul Hartmann as FM Gerd von Rundstedt in "The Longest day".
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #55 Posted March 5, 2014 Harve Presnell as General George Marshall in "Saving Private Ryan"
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #56 Posted March 5, 2014 John Wayne playing....John Wayne...in "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "The Flying Leathernecks"
world war I nerd Posted March 5, 2014 #57 Posted March 5, 2014 Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic in "Born on the 4th of July"
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #59 Posted March 5, 2014 Richard Todd as Major John Howard at "Pegasus Bridge" in The Longest Day. ( Todd was actually "there" on D-Day with the British Airborne boys)
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #60 Posted March 5, 2014 ....and as W/C Guy Gibson VC in "The Dambusters".
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #61 Posted March 5, 2014 Kenneth Moore as Douglas Bader in "Reach for the sky".
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #62 Posted March 5, 2014 Alec Baldwin as Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in that turkey, aka "Pearl Harbor"!
world war I nerd Posted March 5, 2014 #63 Posted March 5, 2014 Jared Harris as Ulysses S. Grant in "Lincoln"
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #64 Posted March 5, 2014 Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel in "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #65 Posted March 5, 2014 Maximillian Schell as SS General Wilhelm Bittrich in "A bridge too far"
panzerbait Posted March 5, 2014 #67 Posted March 5, 2014 How about Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle in "The Story of G.I. Joe?" Maybe one of you computer savvy guys can post a comparison photo!
seanmc1114 Posted March 5, 2014 Author #69 Posted March 5, 2014 How about Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle in "The Story of G.I. Joe?" Maybe one of you computer savvy guys can post a comparison photo! Here's a photo of the two of them actually appearing side by side when Ernie visited the set of "The Story Of G.I. Joe".
seanmc1114 Posted March 5, 2014 Author #70 Posted March 5, 2014 Dennis Morgan as Col. Robert L. Scott in "God Is My Co-Pilot"
seanmc1114 Posted March 5, 2014 Author #71 Posted March 5, 2014 Sir Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur in "Inchon"
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #72 Posted March 5, 2014 Complete with false chin. Another Hollywood turkey!!
fstop61 Posted March 5, 2014 #73 Posted March 5, 2014 Great thread..... Tony Curtis as Ira Hayes in The Outsider
patches Posted March 5, 2014 #74 Posted March 5, 2014 Complete with false chin. Another Hollywood turkey!! Agreed there Ian, Peck is the one.
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